Support for Operating Systems and Environments in SAS® Viya® 3.3

Supported Distributions of Linux

In a multi-machine deployment, SAS recommends that all server machines have the same version of Linux, including the same patch level. A mixture of operating system levels is not advisable. SAS also strongly recommends installing identical operating system versions and patch levels on groups of machines that perform similar roles.

The following operating systems are supported for both physical and virtual machines:

SAS Support for Alternative Operating Systems

Ansible

SAS requires Ansible version 2.2.x through 2.4.x. Do not use Ansible 2.5 or later.

The Ansible controller machine must be connected to the Red Hat Network.

On Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the Ansible server requires a Server-Optional subscription in addition to the Base (operating-system) subscription. The managed nodes must also be registered to the Red Hat Network, but a Base subscription is sufficient.

Python

The Ansible controller requires Python 2.6 or 2.7. Any machines in your deployment that you plan to manage with Ansible require Python 2.4 or a later release. If you are running Python 2.4 or an earlier release on the managed nodes, the python-simplejson encoder for JSON is required. The Ansible controller also requires the following Python modules, which are provided by the Extra Package for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) if the machine is registered:

paramiko

PyYAML

Jinja2 2.7

SAS Visual Investigator requires Python 2.7 and does not support Python 3. Because Python is typically preinstalled on Linux, verify that Python 2.7 is installed on all machines, and that Python 3 is not defined in the system PATH or user PATH.

Supported Distributions of Windows

For SAS Event Stream Processing

The following operating systems are supported:

Windows 7 Professional (64-bit version) with Service Pack 1

Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition (64-bit version)

Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition (64-bit version)

SAS® Viya® 3.3 Support for Cloud Foundry

Runtime Environment

SAS Viya requires version 253 of the Cloud Foundry Elastic Runtime environment. This framework provides application hosting, routing, authentication, service brokers and messaging. It is installed along with the Cloud Foundry 253 package.